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https://privacytests.org rate Brave as the best browser.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Unless someone wants to disagree with me

All the code is opensource and no one has ever raised a privacy alarm in a merged pull request. There's nothing to fear

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't trust browsers that feel the need to advertise themselves

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That's why I use curl and less

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

People don't like the creator of Brave because he's supposedly anti-trans. He donated to some anti-trans political group iirc.

The browser also has some crypto stuff (web advertisment replacement, block chain based decentralized browser sync), and a lot of people hate crypto these days.

Personally I think it's a good browser, the web needs advertising revenue to function and it's solution to replacing web ads with optional browser ads that still pay the websites you visit seems like a decent solution. I respect the push to use a non-chromium browser, but personally I rely too much on browser tab groups to use anything Firefox based.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I respect the push to use a non-chromium browser, but personally I rely too much on browser tab groups to use anything Firefox based.

Out of interest, are your needs not covered by Simple Tab Groups or Tree Style Tab? Both are monitored by Mozilla as "Recommended Extensions".

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

To anyone wondering about the whole "homophobe thing", here is a (hopefully neutral? If you have different sources please share them as well!) wiki link to the drama.

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